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W. H. GOLDSMITH. MACHINE FOR PREPARING LOOSE COTTON IN FORM OF SLIVER;

No. 536,620 5 Patented A. 2,1895.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

WILLIAM H. GOLDSMITH, OF PAWTUOKET, RHODE ISLAND.

MACHINE FOR PREPARING LOOSE COTTON IN FORM OF SLIVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 536,620, dated April2,1 895.

Application filed July 23, 18 94. Serial No. 518,347. (No modal.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. GOLDSMITH, of Pawtucket, in the State ofRhode Island, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inMachines for Preparing Loose Cotton in the Form of a Sliver, of whichthe following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to bringloose cotton directly to theform of a sliver. To this end I combine a feeder for the loose cottonwith a fiber straightening mechanism in which the cotton delivered fromthe feeder has its fiber straightened and is put into approximately alap form, and with a railway head which receives the cotton deliveredfrom the fiber straigthening mechanism and reduces it to sliver formallof these parts being so geared together that no feed of the cotton willtake place when the railway head is out of action.

The accompanying drawing represents in sectional side elevationmachinery organized and arranged in accordance with my invention.

A is the cotton feeder. The particular feeder which I have shown is thatwhich is the subject of United States Letters Patent No. 482,194., datedSeptember 6, 1892, comprising a regulating doifer a, a spiked liftingapron b, a beater clearer c, a wire cage (1, and stripper roll's e. Thecotton lifted by the apron is removed by the beater clearer and thencepasses to and is collected on the cage, from -belt is moved back andforth upon the two cones. The front pair, g, of drawing rolls of thestand g (next to the evener plate) is geared to and driven from thedriven cone 11 as indicated by dotted lines; and the feed apron andstripper rolls of the feeder are by sprocket chain and wheels geared toand driven from variations in speed of the rolls g due to the action ofthe evener mechanism.

The cotton delivered from the feeder upon the traveling apron f passestherefrom over the evener plate-between it and the upper roll of pair g,and thence through the stand of drawing rolls 9 by the action of whichthe loose cotton has its fibers straightened, and is formed into ahomogeneous and even lap. This lap passes over a table is, through atrumpet l, and thence to a stand on of drawing rolls which are part of aregular railway head 0. From these rolls the cotton passes over a plate'n. through a condensing trumpet T and between calendar rolls R whichdeliver the cotton in the form of a sliver into the can S.

The lower or driving cone h of the evener of the fiber straighteningmechanism is driven from the driving shaft of the railway head by sideshaft Z and spur and bevel gearing 5, 2, as shown. The drawing rolls ofthe stand g (other than the first pair g of such rolls) are driven fromthe railway head by sprocket wheel and chain 3, or otherwise. I

Under this arrangement it will be noted that when the drawing rolls arestopped no feed can take place because the stoppage of thedrawing rollsis dependent upon that of the railway head, and when the latter stops,the feed stops also.

Having described my invention and the manner in which the same is or maybe carried into effect, whatI claim herein as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the feeding mechanism;

,- the rolls g'-the feed thus conforming to the the fiber straighteningmechanism; the evener mechanism governing both the feeding and the fiberstraightening mechanisms; the railway head,,condenser and calendarrolls; and gearing whereby all of said mechanisms are driven from therailway head, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore setforth. In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

WILLIAM H. GOLDSMITH. Witnesses:

A. T. ATHERTON, R. B. HORTON.

